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Post by braided-rug on Jan 4, 2006 21:21:54 GMT 10
I didn't know, but it seems Devonshire Tea is an Australian concept. When I was about 8 I went with my friend to stay at her Nana's boarding house, a bed and breakfast I suppose. Later on when we were there it was mostly a place for Devonshire teas and horse riding lessons.
People came and sat in the beautiful house and were treated to scones with jam and cream and a cup of tea, or biscuits with jelly. A cream tea.
"The name Devonshire tea, used in Australia, comes from the county of Devon in England, where it is a local speciality, although it is disputed that this type of meal is original to Devon. It is indeed served all over South West England, and in England is known simply as a cream tea."
From: Wikipedia
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 4, 2006 21:27:18 GMT 10
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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2006 3:13:53 GMT 10
What a quaint and lovely concept. I love all sorts of teas. Dh drinks mostly chamomile and green tea but loves Cherry tea from the cherry festival in Traverse City, Michigan and my favourite is lemon. Dh loves his black and I love mine with cream and a bit os sugar(Splenda now)
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 5, 2006 14:31:41 GMT 10
I would really like to go to that tobacco shed place one day, there are none around here, but there was were I grew up. Still in the same area of our State though.
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 5, 2006 14:36:57 GMT 10
Here is what they say on the ANU website, which is where our son hopes to study next year. "The Better Homes and Gardens website explains Devonshire tea: ‘Scones, jam and clotted cream served with a pot of tea as a light mid-morning or mid-afternoon meal’. Perhaps ‘clotted cream’ is now the fashion (and clotted cream remains a special delicacy of Devon), but I think that whipped cream is the more usual form in Australia. I expected that Devonshire tea would be a common term in the United Kingdom, but surprisingly it is not. On the Internet the closest I came to it was a website in Devon that promised ‘a delicious Devonshire Clotted Cream Tea .. awaits your arrival’, and a Church of Scotland site that used the term in a way we would not: ‘We have what we call a Devonshire Tea in November and a Daffodil Tea in March—the ladies bake, prepare the hall, make tea and coffee, serve tables and at the end of the day go home exhausted but very satisfied with their efforts’. One puzzling piece of evidence occurs in a novel by Californian-based Laurie R. King (writing as Mary Russell). In her Sherlock Holmes mystery The Moor (1998) the following passage appears: We arrived back in time for afternoon tea. ... It was a superb reward for our day’s outing, and I gathered that Mrs Elliott has taken advantage of the Harpers’ presence to create a true Devonshire tea, the piece de resistance of which was a plate piled high with crumbly scones to rival Mrs Hudson’s, a bowl of thick, yellow clotted cream, and a second bowl containing deep red strawberry jam’. It seems that the term Devonshire tea is used primarily in Australian and New Zealand (about 500 websites use the term), although there is a small pocket of usage in British Columbia in Canada. The term cream tea is the standard one elsewhere. Does anyone have any books or old newspapers which mention Devonshire tea prior to 1990?" From: www.anu.edu.auI was thinking in Australia where it is so hot, maybe "cream tea" doesn't appeal so much, I know it doesn't evoke anything in me like the name Devonshire Tea does.
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 15, 2006 21:13:33 GMT 10
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